... I was so tempted to call this one "Update Entry" or something... But people would think that this is a follow up to a past Missing Entry or something. Guess I'll stash that idea for a rainy day--

First off, I would like to say thank you, thank you, thank you all for the recent support. I never would've guessed that something I wrote would get 11k views and on Rising Stars, but here we fucking are... 100% on you guys, and I hope the story's enjoyable for you all. Again, I cannot understate how humbling this all this and I can't ever not praise you for the help.

Secondly, this little story is going to wrap up in a few months. I started this project as a Writathon/I always had this idea so let's use this as an excuse to do it thing and maaaan, has it expanded in a ton of ways. But I don't like the idea of gassing this far beyond it's purpose if I don't have the ideas or means to do so. That's how we get weird filler arcs and stupid story developments, after all. So yeah, while Cal's story is coming to an end, who knows? If my rebooted original story bombs hard again because I'm bad runs it's course, maybe a continuation of Fear can be next to replace that slot. I'm not discounting the possibility.

This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.

And finally, the reason/transparency... I'm not gonna lie to you guys, so far this year is absolute dogshit. A lot of personal stuff is weighing down on me, never mind the state of the world around me, and I was content to keep my usual pace, trucking along--but Life finally got me. Long story short, I got really fucking sick this past weekend (still recovering and it wasn't COVID, thankfully), my PC is slowly dying and I had to order a new one (still hasn't come), and sudden appearance of the original owner of our house we rented is coming over to see how things are--which meant us hauling ass and cleaning the place top-to-fucking-bottom. And I was actually gonna try to write this week's updates--

Being kinder to myself, I decided that I needed the rest. While breaking the five-month streak I was proud of (plus looking at this rambling and wincing because that's 500+ words right there I could've done) feels bad, this week's updates were probably going to be as low quality as late week's. So hopefully, things are gonna settle and we're back in business. But if you unfollow because of this, I understand greatly. Sorry that I couldn't do it and betrayed your trust.

Thank you all for understanding and the love. Have yourselves a damn good one.